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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781563895500
ISBN: 1563895501
Label: Wildstorm
Manufacturer: Wildstorm
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: June 23, 1999
Publisher: Wildstorm
Release Date: June 23, 1999
Sales Rank: 116816
Studio: Wildstorm
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The second Astro City volume collects the first extended storyline from the award-winning comics series as a young man struggles to earn his place as sidekick to the forbidding hero known as the Confessor, only to learn that his hero holds a dark secret. And while the crimefighting duo become a team, political forces are in motion to restrict the actions of the citys heroes.
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A young man looks up to the heroes of the city after he arrives, and wants to be like them, or help them if he can. When he bravely and probably foolishly intervenes in a crime, he comes to the attention of the Confessor, a Batman like character.
Astro City has a Sunnydale-like suburb, and out of that has come a hero trying to make things better. The Confessor finds his Robin, but ultimately at the cost of his secret.
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If you're 'old school' and like Miller and Moore don't miss this book. Worth several re-reads
Peace
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Kurt Busiek asks that question, to a certain degree, in all the Astro City stories. This story follows Brian, a young man who resents both the father that gave free checkups to his small town's children, and the adults who called him a bum after his death. Once Brian's grown up, he goes to Astro City to live among the heroes. Eventually, he catches the eye of a secretive superhero, The Confessor, who decides to make Brian his sidekick. Especially, the Confessor teaches Brian to observe a situation ... Read More
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Busiek has an amazing way of taking familar superhero comic themes and using them in new ways. Unlike some modern comic writers, he respects the genre and knows how to tell great stories within it, rather than cynically discarding the very things that make heroes so inspiring. The Confessor is clearly inspired by Batman, and Altar Boy is his Robin. But the basic similarity of the characters is used as a way of introducing a completely different kind of story. Even what appear to be relatively minor supporting ... Read More
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I'm not a comic book fan; they're much too convulted for my own tastes. But even the first time I read Astro City: Confessions I knew it was something else, something different. Confessions is more literature than it is comic book; it transcends the genre and becomes something new altogether.
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